Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-04
FOR THE WOMEN.
a eop-oIvEN PRIVILEGE.

A Glance Mt Woman's Advantages and Her |
Opportunities at Home and Abroad.
Human conception can not fathom
the amount OF brain power which lies
dormant about us, the waiting ability
which the masses of time cover while |
it awaits the sunshine of opportunity.
Men have a better chance TO develop
in outer light than women. We admit
the freedom of our almost equal educa-
tional advantages. We have come up
as sex from the centuries of darkness
and thank you, our brothers, for ex-
tending IA helping hand. Yet, as some
of you would say, we are ''never sat
isfied." This dissatisfaction is not
popularity of sex. Ambition is the
center of strength around which the
human race revolves. Contentment
was never the nucleus of power. We
must be up and doing while it is day,
for the night cometh wherein no man
can work.
Recently friend of mine just re-
buIllcu lIOlu l1uloPC, taiOheCN PiO
fessor and author by the way, said, in
relating incidents of his travels: '1f
some of our American women who are
clamoring for fuller rights had seen
the sights / did in rural districts of
Germany and Switzerland they would
never open their mouths again. / saw
Swiss peasant have his wife and
daughter hitched to plow, while he
held the lines and drove them as vigor-
ously as we would abls horses. saw
women in Germany cutting fields of
grain, and I'll tell you how they did it.
They stopped down and took little
wisp of the grain in their left hands
and whacket it off with sickle swung
in their right. Women in America
have a better time than anybody in the
world; they have so much done for
them they don't know what to ask.
1t may be true that we do not know
what to ask, therefore most of us have
no personal requests to prefer. Equal
room for development and standing
ground, which we are able to occupy,
is all that the boldest have required,
and from a general standpoint one sex
is as near contentment as the other.
The humdrum monotony of mechan-
ical physical action is facilitating tc
any person of ordinary mental status il
there is no live energy behind it, ne
expanse of thought beside it, and nc
broader space to be reached beyond.
Whether we are men OF women
there is a great work for us to do. L
is true, men hold the balance of pow
err, but it is equally true, if womeI
would arouse from the stupor engen
dered by inaction, they would hold tn
balance of influence.
We are arousing. brothers! Hav,
you heard the trump of the Woman
Christian Temperance UnionP We ar
willing to take the monotony of tn
house or pillow if you choose; to be 81
lent when there is no need to speak
but we are not willing to allow the CT.
of the rising generation for purer air
purer surroundings and purer menta
culture go unheard and unanswered
while we have voices to swell tn
chorus.
We are the mothers the country
arm of dormant ability. We are dis
satisfied-not with our sex, not wit
our political position, but with on
personal inaction during the growth @
wrong. If men in their struggle TO
maintenance and power failed to kee
the foot-way clean we feel we Shout
have left our parlors and kitchens an
swept the streets, purified the all
drinks and speech of the land, 70
which we were training our childre
before we turned them out.
The mutual inertia of centuries whic
,, might have debilitated the powers c
our progeny, was not our right. Gu
:. God-given privilege is to encourag
and promulgate purity. -Phrenologict
Journal.